SAN FRANCISCO — Many people know Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as an exacting tech visionary. Fewer know him as a romantic, a poet or a costumed “Alice in Wonderland” character at a California shopping mall.

These latter characteristics help make up the portrait of Jobs painted by his first serious girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan, in a Rolling Stone story that was shared exclusively with The Associated Press before hitting newsstands today.

Brennan and Jobs met in 1972, when he was a senior and she was a junior at Cupertino’s Homestead High School. In the piece, she recounts her adventures with a 17-year-old Jobs that summer, from moving into a cabin together to getting paid to portray “Alice” characters at a local mall.

Jobs died Oct. 5 at age 56 after struggling for years with pancreatic cancer. After taking his third medical leave from Apple Inc. in January, he resigned as chief executive in August but stayed with the company as chairman.

Brennan’s on-and-off relationship with Jobs lasted until the birth of the couple’s daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, in 1978.

Brennan recounts how Jobs, who hung a Bob Dylan poster over their bed, would stay up late writing poems on his electric typewriter, often re-writing Dylan tunes.

Brennan details how she, Jobs, a roommate named Al and Steve Wozniak (who later co-founded Apple with Jobs) played “Alice” characters at a mall in Santa Clara. Brennan got the part of Alice, while Al, Jobs and Wozniak took turns playing the Mad Hatter and White Rabbit — complete with knee-length giant heads that were hot because of the summer heat and the mall’s broken air conditioner.

A customer dining at Washington’s Oceanaire restaurant noticed an unusual line at the bottom of his receipt: “Due to the rising costs of doing business in this location, including costs associated with higher minimum wage rates, a 3% surcharge has been added to your total bill.”